The dandelion flowers are open again here in Washington!  Gathering them from our backyard lawn is hard to resist.  They’re so beautiful on these early sunny spring days, just calling us outside.

So, here’s another quick and easy tasty dandelion recipe that offers a use for those beautiful, nutritious open yellow flowers…

Dandelion Flower Cookies

For this dandelion recipe, you’ll need: 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil, 1⁄2 cup honey, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, 1 cup unbleached flour, 1 cup dry oatmeal, and 1⁄2 cup dandelion flowers.

1) Preheat the oven to 375.

2) Mix the oil and honey and then beat in the 2 eggs and vanilla.

3) Remove the yellow flower parts from the green parts (compost the green parts).

4) Stir in the flour, oatmeal, and dandelion flowers.

5) Drop the batter by tablespoonfuls onto an oiled cookie sheet.

6) Bake for 10-15 minutes. 

7) Cool and enjoy!

It’s not only fun to gather and use dandelion flowers in your cooking, they offer health benefits as well.  The blossoms are good for your heart.  When steeped as a tea, Susun Weed recommends them for headaches, menstrual cramps, backaches, stomach aches, and even depression.

Dandelion flower oil makes great massage oil.  It’s particularly good for stiff, sore muscles and joints, and to relieve back tension.

The rest of the dandelion plant offers amazing health benefits as well – the greens, the roots, and the sap all offer amazing gifts.  It is good dandelion is tenacious. There are many wonderful danelion recipes.

Despite people’s best efforts to weed dandelion out of our lives, it just keeps popping up, encouraging us to benefit from all dandelion has to offer.

Enjoy your new dandelion recipe!!! Let us know how it goes...

Happy Spring!